Overview

• Junaid died on June 17 in a Bhopal hospital after being beaten by individuals claiming to protect cows near the Mehgaon temple in Raisen district.
• Armaan remains in critical condition after the June 5 assault when the two men were transporting cows for their dairy business.
• Raisen police registered an FIR against 15 unidentified individuals for murder and rioting and a separate FIR against Junaid and Armaan under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Madhya Pradesh Prohibition of Slaughter of Cows Act.
• Three suspects—Dhruv Chaturvedi, Gagan Dubey and Rampal Rajput—have been arrested and authorities are hunting more than a dozen others in Raisen and Vidisha districts.
• Video footage shows the accused vigilantes claiming they intervened on a tip-off about cattle smuggling and victims’ families say the assailants looted roughly Rs 2 lakh during the attack.